Multiculturalism and the postmodern critique: Towards a pedagogy of resistance and transformation

Abstract

For the proletariat does not need all the thousands of little words by which the bourgeoisie masks class struggles in its own pedagogy. The ‘unprejudiced,’ ‘understanding,’ ‘empathetic’ bourgeoisie practices, the ‘child-loving’ teachers — these we can do without. (Benjamin, 1973: 32)